You Will Anyway: Making DOJ work for it

Tuesday, August 30, 2022

Making DOJ work for it

The U.S. Department of Justice apparently has a lot to say in response to former President Donald Trump’s request that a special master handle the materials seized from his Mar-a-Lago residence and resort.

U.S. District Judge Aileen M. Cannon on Monday granted a request from Juan Antonio Gonzalez, U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, to submit a brief of up to 40 pages “in order to adequately address the legal and factual issues raised” Trump’s lawyers’ 21-page motion seeking the appointment of a special master, rather than the standard 20 pages. Trump’s team didn’t oppose the request, which Cannon granted not long after it was filed.

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A hearing is scheduled Thursday at 1 p.m. before Cannon at the federal courthouse in West Palm Beach, Florida.

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Trump’s lawyers, include Lindsey Halligan, a solo practitioner in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, James Trusty of Ifrah Law PLLC in Washington, D.C., and M. Evan Corcoran of Silverman Thompson Slutkin & White in Baltimore, Maryland, haven’t challenged the actual search but are instead seeking the return of some property as well as the special master appointment.

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So, while Trump and his right-wing allies squeal constantly about the horrible "raid", his attorneys, realizing there's nothing to complain about there, are instead trying to get back some docs before the DOJ can use them against Trump. Does that not sound like fear of something truly negative about Trump in the documents becoming public?

But the Department of Justice also has an internal process for handling such material, known as the privilege-review team or filter/taint team.

Trump doesn't want anyone at DOJ to see something. So, besides truly negative, that sounds like something dispositive of criminal activity.

The documents at issue in the Mar-a-Lago search, however, go well beyond attorney-client privilege issues and into top-secret national security issues, described by the National Security Counselors as an “exceedingly esoteric corner of the law.”

Leaders of the nonprofit law firm [National Security Counselors] on Monday submitted the names and curriculum vitae of four potential special masters they described as “uniquely qualified” and willing to serve, while caution the group is “not advocating for or against the appointment of a Special Master and take no position on that question.”

Link to letter of recommendation.

...but hey, do what you want...you will anyway.

UPDATE: Attorney Renato Mariotti discusses the DOJ filing.

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